The behind-the-scenes production of Superman II

Tom mankiewicz was hired to direct mario puzo's original Indian version of Superman and adapted it into a sequel to Superman. Mankiewicz deleted most of Pu Zuo's vulgar language and added relevant religious hints as requested by the producer, but he was later fired and replaced by richard lester.

Richard lester was very opposed to the image style of the epic film established by richard donner in the first episode of Superman, and decided to act according to his own wishes. At that time, Downer's photographer, Geoffrey Unsworth, had just died, so Lester planned to invalidate most of Unsworth's films, invited Robert painter to take charge of shooting, set the image style of the films to comic style, and even deliberately created a sense of flatness. Movies often have three cameras shooting at the same time, two for close-ups and one for distant views. Actors often express dissatisfaction with this way of shooting, because they don't know when they are taking close-ups, and the camera can't capture the actor's best state. Margot kidder, who plays louis laing in this film, especially dislikes Lester's method. In addition, the tone of the film is also designed according to the style of comics.

At that time, before digital technology came out, the crew had to build large-scale scenes with miniature models, of which the Golden Gate Bridge model was 70 feet long and 20 feet high, which was the best in the film. In order to shoot authentic pictures of Superman flying, the crew first tried to shoot dummies with guns, and then made flying Superman models, and thought of using high-quality animation. After giving up the first three methods, the crew decided to use orthographic projection effect and special zoom lens to create flight effect.

The metropolis in the film was shot in new york, and the newspaper Daily Planet is actually the newspaper new york Daily News. Due to budget overruns and delays, richard donner's relationship with producers Ilya, Alexander and Bingler is tense. According to mankiewicz, Donner knew nothing about the budget and the shooting cycle. In order to ease the contradiction between the director and the producer, richard lester was appointed as the producer to mediate the relationship.